Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
Ahmed Saadawi
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
Ahmed Saadawi
*Man Booker International Prize finalist*
Brave and ingenious. -The New York Times
Gripping, darkly humorous … profound. -Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
Extraordinary … A devastating but essential read. -Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi-a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local cafe-collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive-first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by Baghdad’s new literary star (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.
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